Elise Bryant Never Does Anything Half-Assed

First Draft Episode #287: Elise Bryant

Elise Bryant is the debut author of Happily Ever Afters.


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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Little Women by Louisa May Alcott




The Bailey School Kids series by Marcia Thornton Jones and
Debbie Dadey




Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The
Princess Diaries series, Size 12 is Not Fat, All American
Girl and many more




Sarah Dessen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Once
and for All, Just Listen, The Truth About Forever and many
more. Hear her First Draft interview about The Rest of the
Story.




Megan McCafferty, author of Sloppy Firsts: A Jessica Darling
Novel, Bumped, The Mall, and more




The Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate




Faye Kellerman, author of the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
novels, beginning with The Ritual Bath




Sue Grafton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the
Kinsey Millhone series, beginning with A is For Alibi




Even Stevens (TV show)




Lizzie Maguire (TV show and movie)




J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye




Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road and Big Sur




Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, author of Howl




Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of Nobel Prize-winning One
Hundred Days of Solitude




Teach For America




Monster by Walter Dean Myers




March, the graphic novel by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin




Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of
critically acclaimed books, including National Book Award
finalist Ghost, Newberry and Printz-honored Long Way Down,
Coretta Scott King Honoree As Brave as You, and his latest,
middle grade Look Both Ways, which was just named to the
National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature.
Hear his First Draft interviews here and here.




Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The
Hate U Give and On the Come Up talks about her latest book,
Concrete Rose, as well as the upcoming Blackout. Hear her
First Draft interview here.




Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin,
Dear Justyce, Odd One Out, Jackpot, and Clean Getaway. Hear
her First Draft interview here.




Lamar Giles, author of Fake ID, SPIN, Not So Pure and Simple,
and The Last Last-Day-Of-Summer and more




Madcap Retreats




Katherine Locke, author of The Girl With the Red Balloon, who
offers editorial services




Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary is Elise’s literary agent




Leah Johnson, author of You Should See Me In a Crown, and the
forthcoming Rise to the Sun. Hear her First Draft episode
here.




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Leah Johnson, debut author
of You Should See Me In a Crown, and the forthcoming Rise to
the Sun




David Yoon, debut author of
Frankly in Love and Super Fake Love Story




Christina Hammonds-Reed,
debut author of The Black Kids, is in conversation with
2020–2021 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature,
Jason Reynolds




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